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dfc16
post Jun 25 2013, 12:24 PM

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QUOTE(insightone @ Mar 10 2013, 10:11 PM)
Guys, do u think Borders book is a bit overpriced compared to Popular and MPH? And also I noticed their book collections quite less compared other bookstore
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For me personally... Borders over MPH and popular any day. Even if the price is higher they have a better selection of books and with my borders card I get 10% all yr round. I guess it's personal taste. I never am able to find anything in MPH. Popular.. let's not even go there. I only read English books and I find popular caters mostly to Chinese titles...

Actually, best variety is Kinokuniya but prices higher than anywhere else...
dfc16
post Jun 25 2013, 12:26 PM

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QUOTE(agewisdom @ Oct 15 2012, 08:43 PM)
Since I've been to the Junk Bookstore recently, I'll give some feedback.

The positives:

1. If you're looking for books on the Asian side, such as history, politics and economy - they have quite a good collection. These are usually out of print books which is rarely available elsewhere in KL.

2. They also have quite a good collection of fiction books but I didn't really look into these. One good thing is that these fiction are not the typical ones sold elsewhere, but more on the British ones and old novels.

3. Books are reasonably well stacked. There are actually 3 floors. The ground floor has more on non-fiction and the 1st floor are more on fiction. The 2nd floor is what they call the library which contains the more valuable and historical books - which is a treasure trove if you're interested in Malaysian and Asian history/politics.

The not-so positives:
1. Browsing around is definitely not too great an experience because some of the books are stacked vertically. You would need to move it around a bit which is inconvenient. Also, maybe because the Junk Bookstore may have some bad experience, they tend to hover around you at times, especially if you're not a familiar customer. Makes it a bit uncomfortable.

2. The prices are not that cheap. I think they're catering more for people that want to find out-of-print books that they can't find anywhere else. Hence the prices are not that heavily discounted. It's not a problem for someone that WANTS to buy the books, even at retail price but CANNOT get them anywhere at all since they're out of print. But if you're looking for great bargains, it might not be your cup of tea.

Conclusion:
Overall, if you treat the Junk Bookstore as a repository of long out-of-print books or an antique library, you can have a very enjoyable experience there. However, if you're hoping for it to be a bargain bin with cheap novels/books, you might be disappointed. Perhaps, one of the main grouses I have is that some out-of-print books are really expensive, especially those up in the library in the 2nd floor.

Overall, I'd give the Junk Bookstore a 7/10.
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Thanks so much for sharing!

I've seen this store so many times but never went in.

If you don't mind... how much are the books generally?
dfc16
post Jun 27 2013, 11:44 AM

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hahahahahhaha I am a gurl.

being leng chai might be a bit hard... :-p

 

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